Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous